Maine GOP is using the election of 1860 as an argument to quash ranked choice voting. Ironic, considering its National Convention that year didn’t select nominees by plurality, as Maine primaries did before the voters adopted RCV.

Save IRV Memphis, a bipartisan citizen’s group fighting to bring ranked choice voting, also known as instant runoff voting (IRV), to Memphis, Tennessee, held a press conference to launch its campaign to fight the IRV repeal amendment on the ballot this November.

On what was otherwise a uneventful first big primary day of the 2018 election, with predicted winners and establishment favorites sweeping most races, the race for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District got interesting.